{"product_id":"the-four-spent-the-day-together-hardcover","title":"The Four Spent the Day Together - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable...I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too.\" --Rachel Kushner, author of \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable new novel from the \"powerfully original\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) author of the cult classic \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--a stark, witty journey into a fractured, violent America, culminating in the investigation of a teenage murder on Minnesota's Iron Range.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called \"meth community,\" the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they'd bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota--between the art world and the urban poverty of Paul's addiction therapist jobs, the rural poverty of the icy, depressed Iron Range--Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the brutality and despair surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers' lives, Catt is led back to the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in three linked parts\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Four Spent the Day Together\u003c\/i\u003e explores the tensions of unclaimed futures and unchosen circumstances in the age of social media, paralyzing interconnectedness, and the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Kraus is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles where she began writing. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eAliens \u0026amp; Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTorpor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published three books of cultural criticism--\u003ci\u003eVideo Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Where Art Belongs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSocial Practices\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted for television and her literary biography \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020-2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a coeditor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987704185133,"sku":"9781668098684","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/bG8VmyqrQv9781668098684.webp?v=1776183590","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-four-spent-the-day-together-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}